{"id":6,"date":"2006-09-07T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2006\/09\/15\/my-first-real-guitar-lesson\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T00:47:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T04:47:39","slug":"my-first-real-guitar-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2006\/09\/07\/my-first-real-guitar-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"My first real guitar lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Boy, was that exciting and boring all at once.<\/p>\n<p>I went to this older man for lessons, who had me start on slide guitar because he thought that my fingers were too small to chord. I thought that he was an idiot but he knew what he was doing, so I thought. This was one of those &#8220;Royal Conservatory&#8221; school of guitar that I was enrolled in. 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